Running Zcoin node as a Tor hidden service

This is a legacy article. It may no longer be accurate or up to date.

Assuming you’re on Ubuntu Xenial

You need to add the following entry in /etc/apt/sources.list or a new file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/:

deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org xenial main
deb-src http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org xenial main

Then add the gpg key used to sign the packages by running the following commands at your command prompt:

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -

You can install it with the following commands:

apt-get update
apt-get install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring

Configure Tor

username@host:~$ sudo nano /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc

ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 1
CookieAuthFileGroupReadable 1

Make sure these are all in the file. Mine was missing the ControlPort

Restart Tor:

sudo /etc/init.d/tor restart

Check Tor user

grep User /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc

Give user member of Tor group

sudo usermod -a -G debian-tor YOURUSERNAME

Restart Zcoind

./zcoin-cli stop
./zcoind -daemon -debug=tor